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Corruption grips Jamalpur phone exchange
JAMALPUR. June 16 : The government every year incurs a huge loss of revenue earnings due to mismanagement and malpractice in the local telephone exchange.
The subscribers and others with urgent messages for their kith and kins residing at far flung places have to wait for hours together to get a line. Whereas, anyone who brides Taka 60 gets the line quickly, it is alleged.
It Is further alleged that some telephone holders have monthly contracts and even if they talk for hours over phone no excess bill is to be paid.
Some operators al Jamalpur Telephone Exchange-office are alleged to have collected illegal money from these telephone subscribers. The collected amount is shared by the officials. Sources say that inspitc of several transfer orders, some officials have been still working there. They reportedly got their transfer orders cancelled by means of illegal gratification.
Most of the lines under the local exchange remain disrupted for days together, local journalists fall to send messages to national dailies tn< Dhaka due to frequent disruption in the lines.
Subscribers also complained of frequent cross-connections and other disturbances in the telephone sets. The local telephone office sel-don attends to the trunk calls of the people. Some linemen and operators illegally realise money from the subscribers.
Moreover, only eight channels at the NWD introduced a few years ago arc new functioning. But call load is too heavy for only eight lines which cannot cope with the situation.
Wheat misappropriated
Misappropriation of government wheat worth over Taka 1.5 lakh by the Chairman, Cluster Village Project of No 3 Mahmudpur union under Melandah upazila was unearthed recently.
According to a written allegation. over 562 maunds of wheat were allocated for the construction of cluster village Thikana Bandhan". Of the total wheat received in two phases, only 219 maunds were utilised and the rest 343 maunds were allegedly grabbed by the project Chairman.
It is reliably learnt that no proper measurement or survey In terms of earthwork was done when the wheat was received from Melandah LSD godown.
The complainants have demanded Immediate action against the alleged misappropriation of government wheat.
On a complaint lodged in this regard, Mr Motiur Rahman, UNO of Melandah upazila made an on the spot visit but could not Identify the lapses as the project Chairman misled the UNO during the enquiry. It may be noted that following further complaints lodged with different higher authorities, further investigation was made by Alok Kumar Dhar. Project Implementation Officer of Melandah, But no report has yet been submitted to the concerned authorities for unknown reason.
When contacted Shahjahan, however, the project Chairman termed the allegation baseless.